Chania day 5

Got the news about Greeks being limited to €60 per day withdrawal. Spoke to our hotel supremo about the situation. He was philosophical about it all, saying the bank closures and capital controls had been expected anyhow and that something would be worked out somehow or other and that things would work themselves out in time. He gave us another fabulous breakfast, and we got our stuff together for the boat trip we'd promised ourselves.

It's the usual sort of thing: out to sea, then stop for swims at different points, with a bit of food and drink thrown in. We went for the longer, three and a half hour, trip and enjoyed every moment. The guy in charge was a real character, whose party piece was to give us an instructional lesson about the seafood to be caught hereabouts. We learned about sea urchins and how to eat them and were also introduced to a baby octopus which he handed around and which behaved itself quite well until it got a bit upset and did its ink trick to protect itself.

Our boat mates were a good gang, especially a Greek honeymoon couple who we would bump into again the next morning during our final wander round town. Great value for only €15 and a nice change to the routine.

Since this was our last night in Chania, we decided to treat ourselves to what we expected would be a special meal in what looked like a special restaurant (The Doors, it's called, on the narrow street which curves around an old fortress at the far end of the harbour). As it happened, the food was rather disappointing, but this had been our only bad food experience so far, so we couldn't really complain.

Being our last night, we re-visited some of our favourite spots for nostalgic moments of farewell before heading back to the hotel at an hour which was neither disappointingly early nor ridiculously late.